RE: IML: hidden stereo

You cannot connect the wires that are intended for a 4 speaker system to two speakers without damaging the equipment. Do not connect two speaker wires together – the circuits are designed to operate independently, and connecting them will damage the radio.

You cannot get a true front/rear fader stereo operation unless you connect only the wires for the front left and right rear speakers from your radio to your two speakers - then when you adjust the “fader control” to dead center, you will get a sort of lopsided stereo effect as you will have the left stereo output in the front seat and the right stereo output in the rear seat – I suppose that is as close as you can come to what you want, but it will sound pretty strange.

Your only other choice is to connect only the wires for the left (or right) channel speakers, one to the front speaker and one to the rear speaker, then you will have a true fader control, but no stereo effect at all, which is the way your car came from the factory. If you do that, program material that requires both channels to make sense will not be pleasant to listen to! ( BUT! If your radio has an option to turn off the stereo feature, this will work OK – you will get a mixed left/right channel output, basically duplicating the original setup.)

Whichever you decide to do, leave the speaker wires that are not going to be used isolated from each other and from any other point – just tape up each wire end individually so it cannot touch anything metal.

Dick Benjamin (who has been herding electrons for about 54 years).

From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JAY D'ANGELO
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:45 PM
To: john sadowski
Subject: RE: IML: hidden stereo

I'm only using two speakers - one in front on one in the rear

From: jsadowski@xxxxxxx
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: hidden stereo
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:48:18 -0700

If you wire them all together, you won't be able to get left & right balance or front to rear fade. You need to run a set of positive & negative to each of the 4 speakers. The instructions with the stereo should tell you which wires go to which speaker.

John

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From: JAY D'ANGELO

To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:28 PM

Subject: IML: hidden stereo

OK audiophiles - this will be easy for you:

I'm hiding a new stereo under the dash, but I'm only using the front and rear speakers. How do I wire them, since there are four speaker wire runs?

Connect both front pos leads together and then to the speaker and the same with the output leads from the rear and connect the negs togethe? If I do that, then I will have fade control. Sound right? been a long time since I've played with speaker wires.

Jay D'Angelo
64 Iml Cvt
Las Vegas

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